Friday, March 14, 2008

So, I Wouldn't Suggest Driving from Kansas to Utah

After just completing a 19 hour return trip from Lawrence to Logan, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I was warned...I didn't listen...and now I think I might be scarred for life. This will teach me. When will I learn to trust my car to non-family members? That may have made the trip better because I wouldn't have been the only one driving. Ultimately, though, on top of the pure hell of driving that long, what tipped the scales to traumatic was the fact that I had to drive through two snowstorms/showers today. Yes, two. One in the Colorado Rockies and one in Utah (on that lovely highway from Helper to Spanish Fork no less). I usually don't mind driving in the snow all that much, and even the driving to Kansas might not be that bad. But the two combined created a catastrophe. I am not sad I went to Kansas. But I am sad that Cornelius (my car) and I may have been traumatized for life.

On Record

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."-Francois Mauriac

"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."-T.S. Eliot

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."-Bertrand Russell

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."- Albert Einstein

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."-George Burns"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost."-Martina Navratilova

"I feel like 'Cactus Gavvy' Cravath. Do you know who that is? Right. Nobody does. He's the guy who had the home run record before Babe Ruth came along."-Tom Walsh, of Washington D.C. (He held the record for "Jeopardy" winnings until Ken Jennings of SLC broke it.)